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Date Posted: 07:46:58 11/19/01 Mon
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Words Spoken: Old Tassel, Cherokee

Words Spoken: Old Tassel, Cherokee

"Many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your
manners and your customs. We would be better pleased with beholding the good
effects of these doctrines in your own practices, than with hearing you talk
about them".

"You say, for example, "Why do not the Indians till the ground and live as
we do?" May we not ask with equal propriety, "Why do not the white people
hunt and live as we do?"

The end of the Revolutionary War brought an end to British aid, however, a
new European power was anxious to expand its claims in North American -- the
Spanish. With France and England out of the way, Spain began to encourage
the Chickamaugas to continue their raids on the colonists. Not much
encouragement was needed, however, because settlers were continuing to flood
across treaty boundaries onto Cherokee land.

Old Tassel had assumed responsibilities of chief upon the deaths of
Attacullakulla in 1780 and Oconostota in 1782. A new era was beginning for
the Cherokee. The Cherokee had a new nation to contend with -- the United
States. Old Tassel's first order of business was another futile attempt to
stop the intrusions onto Cherokee land.


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Note: This meeting on November 18, 1785 led up to the The Treaty Of New
Echota, which was the first first treaty between the United States and the
Cherokee and which was signed at Hopewell on November 28, 1785. It has been
said that this was considered less a "treaty" than a concession by the
Cherokee, whose protests about white settlers on land that was supposedly
under their ownership were basically ignored.

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